Name: ‘Steak and Chips’ Salad
Yield: Saturday Night Dinner for 2
Ingredients: 4 tbsp rapeseed (canola) or sunflower oil; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 small beetroot; 100 g/3½ oz.mix of rocket (arugula), watercress and spinach; 1 level tsp paprika; 2 heaped tsp Dijon mustard; pinch of garlic sea salt; salt; 6 small mushrooms, finely sliced; 2 medium fluffy chipping potatoes (King Edward or Maris Piper); 2 (175 g/6 oz) prime sirloin steaks, fat removed (although a paltry 175 g/6 oz.would never suffice for Mr Shopkeeper); 1 small onion, cut into rings; 6 cherry tomatoes, sliced

Preparation info

Saturday Night Dinner for
2

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Salmagundi

By Sally Butcher

Published 2014

About

Just to prove to your carnivorous best beloved that salad never means having to say you’re sorry. There are, of course, some unswayable types for whom steak is only steak if it comes in sizzling slab format, but for the rest of the world this is a slightly healthier/funkier option.